Dragon Gate continued The Gate Of Evolution 2023 Tour today with their monthly Tokyo event.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.
The announced paid attendance was 1353, a legit sellout.
Match 1: Punch Tominaga beat Daiki Yanagiuchi.
Match 2: BIGBOSS Shimizu & U-T beat Genki Horiguchi & Takashi Yoshida. Shimizu pinned Horiguchi after Power BOSS.
Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii & Kagetora beat Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Kenichiro Arai. Kagetora pinned Kanda after Kagenui.
Match 4: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Shuji Kondo & Eita beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi. YAMATO pinned Ben-K after Onmipotent & Luminescent Frankensteiner.
Match 5: Yoshiki Kato beat Masaaki Mochizuki by DQ.
Match 6: Kzy, Strong Machine J, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. KAMEI pinned Tanaka after JFK.
Main Event: In a handicap match, Luis Mante beat Shun Skywalker, KAI, H-Y-O & ISHIN by pinning ISHIN.
The next event is Saturday at Matsuyama Community Center in Ehime. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
After the event, according to the Dragon Gate Official English Twitter, H-Y-O left the Z-Brats faction and changed his ring name to 豹, pronounced “Hyo” like his prior ring name and is the Japanese kanji for “Panther”. For now I likely will refer to him as Hyo in future posts. Hyo also will get the next shot at Open The Brave Gate Champion ISHIN. That match will happen on 12/5 at Korakuen.
